1. The turkey came from America in 500, captured the imagination of the great artist and naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. 2. The ancient and majestic fir in Roncobello Bergamasco. 3. Assortment of exotic fruits. The stupid does not waste any on a Monday, but expects Christmas, Easter, Assumption, the day of his birthday, to impress friends and family, trivial as him, with some provincial oddity or something exceptionally bad taste. After so many days as a sheep - he must have said - a day as a lion. Yes, but bear. The
stupid, on the other hand, is always very active. Shoot the idiot du village by the end of malnutrition and crosses between relatives, the fool has taken refuge in the cities of the province, even if it is proved that you can hide better in the metropolis. Beware
, so for Christmas or birthday. And 'know that the foolish man emerges in celebrations, rituals collective solemnities. When the yoke of social convention becomes narrow, and parental control or friendly forces even those who do not want (but everyone wants it, I assure you) to the typical mass-man's herd behavior.
Sure, sure, "we are free", for heaven's sake, "we are not animals in a cage." And, indeed, "as they allow psychologists e sociologi di studiarci e analizzarci come se fossimo cavie?" "Ognuno di noi è diverso". Così, andiamo dicendo – l’impiegato di Barletta e la commessa di Trezzano sul Naviglio – che "ognuno la pensa a modo suo". Sarà. Ma poi quando, dove? Davanti allo specchio della stanza da bagno, nella sala d’aspetto o in treno.
Invece, nella vita reale, di fronte agli eventi, alle situazioni, ai comportamenti altrui, insomma ai tanti problemi di ogni giorno, pensiamo, diciamo, facciamo tutti le stesse medesime cose, quasi sempre irrazionali, quasi sempre cretine.
E questo i dittatori della pubblicità e della politica lo sanno benissimo. Si calcola che per ogni milione di stupidi inconsapevoli, reign inconstrastati a dozen super-shrewd maneuvering consapevolissimi marketing, consumer and political. The elites are used to this, what the heck. You do not want the dull demos, the people, has really the crater, the Power. Would not know what to do. Indeed, no, I would use evil. The hidden persuaders
(remember American Veblen? And they say that liberalism, the West, capitalism, the market does not give rise to criticism and reformist voices!) Are based on this kind of popular person in accordance with, trivial , unoriginal, imitative, the buildings that crowd the most unexpected, fills entire neighborhoods, rather, I say, is the very essence of Democracies. They are the ideal recipients of two kinds for sale: the property market unnecessary and empty words of politics.
What then are the same thing, because - as he lucidly written Schumpeter - in the supermarket goods are sold in exchange for money, as in the seat are sold in exchange for promises of votes. Or vice versa, because even the tangible contain promises, as well as votes can be bought with money.
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Christmas, therefore, the day of truth. We have year-round mock common sense and reasonable thrift, even anticonsumismo. But at Christmas, no, you can not. At Christmas, we disclose it. A Christmas to play heavy and goes down the ace on the table. At Christmas you spend, you have to spend. Even the poor in the chamber. At Christmas, in fact, merchants realize a third or half of the revenues of the entire year. Christmas is truly the party of business, as Mark Twain said.
And here a series of absurd nonsense. The Nordic, Scandinavian, German, at most Christmas tree (spruce), the Middle East and Israel which Jesus lived - if it existed - in desert areas. The American turkey (imported into Europe in 1500 approx) eaten in mass to the post, if anything, the kid native of Israel fifteen centuries earlier. Yeah, imagine how they must feel these days pines and turkeys: died in Semel's crazy year. And pine and turkey all laugh at Easter, and would be ashamed to August.
And what about the trees 'green', as traders and producers call those plastic (yet another scam of Christmas), obviously much less environmentally friendly than natural ones, so much so that unlike the latter are not readily degradable?
And speaking of local oddities. For example, fattened farmed eels (the "eel") or in France, foie gras, the fattened liver of geese to bursting. Yes, it's diseased liver of ducks. Indeed, the very term "liver" is derived from ficatum (from ficus) because the Romans fattened geese stuffing figs. This shows also, in passing, as quickly simple sugars, sweets, they turn into fat in the liver, including man.
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And what about the smoked salmon, full of benzo (a) pyrene, a carcinogen, without being provided with substantial quantities of the famous fat "healthy" omega-3, found mostly in the liver of salmon, which is not It is never found in gift packages?
overflown on French champagne (ah, if they had not taught the Etruscans, the Gauls, with which it trades, to make the wine!) Made by adding sugar, like many French and German wines.
Here, then, the rag. Edwards Salerno or surveyor Colombo Berg, who never, ever mangiano arance o mandarini, acquistare mangostano e papaia, sapodilla o kum-kuat, rambutan o lichi. Il che ha giustamente fatto arrabbiare i nostri agricoltori. La Coldiretti, in occasione della Conferenza dell'ONU sui cambiamenti climatici di Copenhagen, ha stilato una classifica di cibi esotici che "inquinano" il Natale, perché per produrli e soprattutto per trasportarli fino a noi richiedono grandi quantità di energia e contribuiscono all'emissione di gas a effetto serra. Ed è sempre colpa del Natale.
Ciliegie e pesche dal Cile, mirtilli argentini, cocomero rosso dal Brasile, noci dalla California, more dal Messico, salmone dall'Alaska, asparagi dal Peru', melone dalle Guadalupe, melograni da Israele, fagiolini dal Cile.
E 'was calculated - according to Coldiretti - that a pound of cherries from Chile to reach the Italian tables must travel nearly 12,000 km with a consumption of 6.9 pounds of oil and the emission of 21.6 pounds of carbon dioxide , while a kilo of blueberries from Argentina has to fly for more 'of 11,000 km with a consumption of 6.4 kg of petroleum that release carbon dioxide and 20.1 pounds of watermelon Brazilian travels over 9000 km, burns 5.3 pounds of free oil and 16.5 pounds of carbon dioxide for every pound of product through the transport aircraft.
fruit out of season (for us) prices up to more than ten times higher than those of apples, pears, kiwis, grapes, oranges and clementines Italians, and above all - states Coldiretti - it is often very tasty product, having been collected at a grade of incomplete maturation to withstand travel thousands of miles traveled on the media that release pollutants into the air methane or carbon carboica increasing the greenhouse effect. When we add, do not hide pesticides in quantities, and maybe even kind prohibited.
But if you really want a twist, or stupid to impress guests at Christmas or New Year Banquet - suggest farmers - you can discover the homegrown variety or little known, little-used, the prickly pear apple lemon verbena, pear madernassa. But remember that the varieties homegrown and oddities are hundreds, not to mention the wild fruits. By the way, in the thick Mediterranean vegetation should grow in these weeks the strawberry ...
on "War of Christmas as a potlatch, see also my article pungent last year.
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JAZZ. The tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry are reflected here in a Where Or When of 1963.
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